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We Are The World 25 For Haiti Lyrics Right now they need a (7) helping hand [Toni Braxton]
[Wyclef Jean] So let’s start giving
[Justin Bieber] Nou se mond la
There comes a time We are the Children [Lil Wayne]
When we heed a certain call [Adam Levine] There’s a choice we’re making
[Nicole Scherzinger& Jennifer Hudson] We are the ones who make a brighter day We’re saving our own lives
When the world must come together as one so let’s start giving It’s true we’ll make a better day
[Jennifer Hudson] [Pink] Just you and me
There are people dying There’s a choice we’re making
[Jennifer Nettles] We’re saving our own lives
[Chorus - All]
And it’s time to(1) lend a hand to life [BeBeWinans]
We are the world
(2) The greatest gift of all It’s true we’ll make a better day
We are the children
[Josh Groban] Just you and me
We are the ones who make a brighter day
We can’t go on So let’s start giving
Pretending day by day [Michael Jackson] [Akon]
[Tony Bennet] When you’re down and out There’s a choice we’re making
that someone, somehow will soon make a change There seems no hope at all We’re saving our own lives
[Mary J Blige] [Usher] It’s true we make a better day
But if you just believe Just you and me
We are all a part of There’s no way we can fall
(3) God’s great big family [Celine Dion]
[T-Pain]
And the truth, you know love is all we need Well, well, well, well, let us realize
We are the world
That a change can only come
We are the children
[Fergie]
[Chorus] We are the ones who make a brighter day
When we stand together as one
[Michael Jackson] So let’s start giving
(4) We are the world [Jamie Foxx imitating Ray Charles]
We are the children [Chorus - All] Choice were making
[Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson] We are the world saving our own lives
(5) We are the ones who make a brighter day We are the children It’s true we’ll make a better day
So let’s start giving We are the ones who make a brighter day Just you and me
[Barbra Streisand] So let’s start giving
There’s a choice we’re making [Nick Jonas]
[Rapping - LL Cool J, Will-I-Am, Snoop Dogg, Busta
We’re saving our own lives Got to start giving
Rhymes, Swizz Beatz]
It’s true we’ll make a better day [All]
We all need somebody that (8)we can lean on
Just you and me There’s a choice we’re making
when you wake up look around and see that your
We’re saving our own lives
dreams gone
[Toni Braxton]
[Miley Cyrus] when the earth quakes we’ll help you make it through
It’s true we’ll make a better day
(6) Send them your heart the storm
Just you and me
So they’ll know that someone cares (9) when the floor breaks a magic carpet to stand
[Mary Mary]
[Enrique Iglesias] on
We are the world
so their cries for help we are the World united by love so strong
We are the children
will not be in vain when the radio isn’t on you can hear the songs
[Tony Bennet]
[Nicole Scherzinger] (10) a guided light on the dark road you’re
It’s for the children
We can’t let them suffer walking on
[Isaac Slade]
no we cannot turn away (11) a sign post to find the dreams you thought
We are the ones who make a brighter day
[Jamie Foxx] was gone

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someone to help you move the obstacles you stumbled Directions: After reading the lyrics to the song,
on identify the LITERARY DEVICES numbered in the lyrics.
someone to help you rebuild after the rubble’s gone
we are the World connected by a common bond Alliteration Allusion Simile Metaphor Hyperbole
Love the whole planet sing it along Onomatopoeia Personification Oxymoron
[Wyclef]
CABARETT
Note: Not all literary devices are guaranteed to be
featured in the song lyrics posted. Literary
[Chorus - All] Devices may be used more than once.
[Kanye West] Good Luck!
Everyday citizens
everybody pitching in
Literary Devices in “We Are The World”
[Singing - Children &Wyclef Jean]
Nou se mond la
nou se timounyo
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[Will-I-Am]
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You and I
You and I
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[Kanye West]
Uh, 12 days no water
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what’s your will to live?
[Will-I-Am]
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(12) we amplified the love we watching multiply
[Kanye West]
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(13) Feeling like the World’s end
we can make the (14) World win
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[Will-I-Am]
Like Katrina, Africa, Indonesia
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and now Haiti needs us, the need us, they need us
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[Chorus - All]
[Wyclef Jean] 10. ______________________________________
(15) Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay 11. ______________________________________
Ayiti, Ayiti, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
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lyrics courtesy of www.killerhiphop.com 13. ______________________________________
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